Trying (unsuccessfully) to find a bio for Jennifer Banks, whose poems I liked in gutcult, I stumbled instead on the inaugural issue of Issue 1, an ambitious online journal/anthology here:
Announcing the release of Issue 1, edited by Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter. Now available here as a 3,785-page PDF (3.9 MB).
This issue features new poems by Nada Gordon, Evelyn Reilly, Julianna Mundim, Emmy Catedral, Enid Bagnold…
There follows a list of roughly 4000 names (I didn’t count), including the famous and the unknown, the living and the dead, and, for all I know, the made up. I don’t claim to have read all or even part of it, but judging by the comments it seems that the poems included don’t truly represent the writing of those named. Anyway, the comments made me laugh; but then, it’s late.
